First Dog Bo airlifted - another non-issue for Rethugs

[ChazII]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/10236302/First-dog-Bo-is-airlifted-to-Obama-holiday-home.html

Rooms have to be found for dozens of Secret Service agents, someone has to carry a selection of presidential basketballs, and of course the family dog needs his own state-of-the-art aircraft.

Bo, the president's Portuguese Water Dog, arrived separately on one of two MV-22 Ospreys, a hybrid aircraft which takes off like a helicopter but flies like a plane.

This is making the FB rounds.

[jberryhill]

1. Prez. Mitt would have tied him to the roof

[zappaman]

2. you win

thread officially over!

[ChazII]

3. Agreed.

You win.

[bravenak]

5. Mic drop.

It's over.

[OneGrassRoot]

9. DUzy!!! n/t

[B Calm]

10. LOL

[Princess Turandot]

4. Don't they usually send two helicopters whenever POTUS needs to use them?...

I think they always have a spare with them and if need be, a decoy.

[penultimate]

11. I'm willing to bet the other helicopter would have been needed even without the dog coming along...

This would only be an issue if the only reason why that helicopter came along was so that it transport the dog. I find it hard to believe Obama (or any president) would be dumb enough to do that.

[Boom Sound 416]

13. They fly three helicopters that revolve around one another. that's not these aircraft though

[Cleita]

6. Seems to me that Barney, Bush's dog got flown around a lot too, but

no one uttered a peep about that.

[Beaverhausen]

7. Amazing how no president ever went on vacation before

Let alone their families. Shameful.

[RZM]

8. There was a similar story during the war about FDR

That he sent a navy ship at great cost to pick up his dog Fala. It was bullshit.

The more things change . . .

[penultimate]

12. When they start using Ospreys for presidential transport?

I didn't know they were using those.

[Dash87]

14. It's bull crap. Just because a dog is on a helicopter

with other staffers and they aren't well known doesn't mean the helicopter is just for the dog. What a bunch of knuckleheads.